Blue Green Infrastructure Planning: Approaches, Integration in Society and Implementation

Abstract

With rapidly declining environmental conditions in the urban scenario, the current times demand for not just grey interventions, but more focus on nature based solutions for overcoming the fate of the modern times. Studies show major Indian cities are rapidly losing green cover in the current decade, which must be arrested with efficient approaches. This is extremely important for maintaining resilience in the urban setting. Cities should be resilient to protect its ecology and residents from the aftermath of major disasters. This resilience can be built by a functioning integrated layout of nature based interventions interlinked with planning. This paper is focused on understanding blue green infrastructure, its approaches, how it has been used in various projects in the country and the world to solve certain relevant environmental issues related to the context. The understanding has been tried to be achieved by studying relevant researches and implemented projects. The studies discuss about a range of aspects like geospatial analysis to achieve a network of blue green infrastructure, identifying various service demands and conducting land suitability assessment, identifying the stakeholders involved and on-ground implementation strategies, involvement of the community and the public spaces availability. Thus finally, the research is aimed towards getting an in-depth understanding and in the near future implementing this understanding towards successful integration into a thesis in a selected site context. Key Words: Blue green infrastructure, resilience, disasters, planning, service demands, land suitability assessment, public spaces, community, nature based solutions